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BBC News
28-05-2025
- General
- BBC News
Cornish Pirates McNab to make Doncaster move
Cornish Pirates winger Matt McNab will join Champ Rugby rivals Doncaster Knights in the 26-year-old Zimbabwe international has scored 30 tries in 51 appearances since moving to the Penzance-based club two years ago. He had previously spent time at Hartpury and Worcester Warriors and also played in South Africa's Currie Cup for the Zimbabwe Goshawks."Since arriving at the Pirates, Matt immediately showed his strength and ability and a real commitment both on and off the pitch," said Pirates joint-head coach Gavin Cattle."He is a big personality who will be missed massively, and we would like to thank him for his quite considerable overall contribution."McNab added: "It has been the best two years of my rugby career so far, and I have loved every single minute."I can't thank everyone at the Pirates enough for what they have done for me along the journey. It's been amazing for my development on the field and in my day-to-day life off it."
BBC News
14-04-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Cornish Pirates survive Chinnor fightback to earn win
Cornish Pirates joint-head coach Gavin Cattle says he was disappointed with his side's second-half showing in their 33-31 win at led 33-12 at the break, Pirates had to hang on to get the bonus-point win, which kept them fifth in the Championship. Matt McNab scored four tries after Dan Hiscocks' fifth-minute score as Pirates looked to be cruising to a try from Callum Pascoe and two from Cam Rafferty made for a tense finish as a missed conversion was all that separated Chinnor from a draw. "There was some exceptional stuff in the first half, we took our tries well," Cattle told BBC Radio Cornwall."Then second half I don't know what happened. I don't think we tried to shut up shop, I just think Chinnor had a bit of deserved pressure."The disappointing thing for us was our penalty count - I think we were doing really well in defensive sets, but the decision-making in and around the breakdown is going to be a work-on for us this week."There were a couple of 50-50 pens in there that swung momentum a bit that could have gone our way, but at large if you split the game up, I think we were the better team."
